THE Housing Executive has been unable to explain how a memorial it funded was tampered with ahead of a contentious parade honouring UDA men.
Last week the controversial £11,000 monument was again used during the commemoration in south Belfast's Ormeau Road area.
For a third year a parade was held to coincide with the anniversary of the killing of Joe Bratty and Raymond Elder.
They have been linked to a 1992 gun attack on a nearby Sean Graham's bookmakers in which five Catholics were killed.
In each year a temporary plaque bearing Bratty and Elder's names has been fixed to the memorial.
The Housing Executive (NIHE) has said the monument, built in 2014, was intended as a First World War memorial.
However, images of the memorial during the parade on Friday showed how a black frame around the remembrance message had been removed.
Asked about this, NIHE said it visited the memorial and found that the frame had been returned.
A spokeswoman said in a statement: "There has been no change to the memorial garden.
"The garden was checked this morning (Monday) and the memorial remains the same with the frame in situ."
However, NIHE was unable to give any explanation for the memorial being tampered with.
A Parades Commission ruling banned this year's commemoration from marching along Ormeau Road.
But participants were still allowed to gather at the contentious memorial on Candahar Street near Annadale Flats.
NIHE has previously rejected calls to remove the memorial amid fears that it is becoming the centrepiece of an annual UDA commemoration.
